Wednesday reader's view: President has legal right

Dennis Clark

Updated 7:58 pm, Wednesday, February 15, 2017

To the editor:

The U.S. government has taken in refugees in past years by the tens of thousands with no discrimination of religion or ethnicity. There have been times such as in 1979 when Democratic President Jimmy Carter used a Constitutional law, the McCarran-Walter Immigration Law, to deport Shiite, Muslim Iranians for the safety of the American citizens and the safety of this nation, No Democrats or Republicans protested or stomped their little feet over Jimmy Carter’s decision to protect America. President Carter was not called a bigot, Islamophobe or a racist because he deported Muslims. What he did was accepted because first, he was a Democrat, and second, because he used common sense. There was no Muslim ban in 1979 by the president, just as there is no Muslim ban in 2017, but there is a ban on Islamic, radical terrorists.

There is no Constitutional law that guarantees the right for everyone in the world the right of American citizenship or the right to work and live here — as most Americans know, there is a war being waged against the United States and its citizens here and abroad. There are and have been for several years enemy operatives working and going to school here and then planning and carrying out attacks against our nation on our soil. Osama bin Laden went to school here and lived here for some time, but everyone would agree that he wouldn’t have made a good citizen. The McCarran-Walter Immigration Law gives the president of the United States the constitutional legal right to deport aliens and refugees who are lawless, who have no regard for our laws (as do many of our citizens also), and who want to hurt and kill American citizens and disrupt our way of life, and until proper refugee vetting is carried out. Caution and common sense must rule.

Thank God that we now have a president who has the guts and good sense to once again use the McCarran-Walter Immigration Law to remove any threat from radical Islamic terrorists that infiltrate the U.S. posing as refugees or workers and students. The left wing politicians apparently have no regard for the safety of American citizens. No religion that targets civilians, cuts off the heads of Christians and disregards the U.S. law should be expected to be protected under the umbrella of the First Amendment. If U.S. Christians should suddenly start a worldwide war of crusades you can bet your last dollar that they would not be protected by our First Amendment.

Well over 3,000 American innocent, civilian citizens have been killed on U.S. soil. Left-wing progressives do not seem to want this to stop unless of course it was someone from their family. U.S. legal citizens who are members of world religions, who want to abide by our national laws and co-exist peacefully and equally with citizens of different religions, will have no problem; thousands of diverse religions have assimilated in the U.S. wanting to be equal with and not wanting to rule over other religions — religion is one of the things that the First Amendment protects when it is equal in all aspects and not threatening or physically harmful to other citizens. U.S. citizenship is a privilege to obtain, not a right.